Edith Marie Sevick, Senior Fellow                                                                                                                                         

Research School of Chemistry                                                             

Institute of Advanced Studies                                                                   

The Australian National University                                                                                                       

Canberra ACT 0200

AUSTRALIA

 

 e-mail: sevick@rsc.anu.edu.au

office phone: 02-6125-0508

 

Personal:

 

DOB:  20 June 1961

Married to David R.M. Williams

Children:         Maximilian D.S. Williams, DOB 14 June 2000

                        Samantha C.S. Williams, DOB 26 June 2002

 

Education:

 

1989 Ph.D. Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst MA

 

1983 B.S.E. (Summa Cum Laude) Chemical Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh PA

 

Research Interests:

 

Physical problems:  PicoNewton-scale force measurements, experimental demonstrations of the fluctuation theorem, visualisation and manipulation of single polymer chains and biopolymers, forces applied/measured on single chains and colloidal particles, size-separation of polyelectrolytes, polymers at surfaces and interfaces, confined chains, self-assembly systems.

 

Applicable tools:  Optical Tweezers (OT), fluorescence microscopy, Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM), Monte Carlo simulation, Langevin dynamics, de-Gennes-type scaling theories.

 

Appointments:

 

Senior Fellow & Fellow, June 1996-present  (with maternity leave in 2000 and 2003)                                                                  

Research School of Chemistry, Institute of Advanced Studies                                

The Australian National University                                                 

 

Assistant Professor, Aug. 1992-May 1996                                                                                                              

Department of Chemical Engineering,                                                                

University of Colorado, Boulder                                                                                                            

 

Postdoctoral Research Assistant, Oct.1990-Aug. 1992                                                                                   

Department of Chemical Engineering,                                                                  

University of California, Berkeley                                                                                                         

 

Postdoctoral Research Assistant, Department of Physics, Jan.1989-Oct.1990                                            

Theory of Condensed Matter (TCM), University of Cambridge                             

 

Research Assistant, Polymer Science and Engineering Department,   Sept. 1983-Dec.1988                             

University of Massachusetts, Amherst                                                                 

 

Honors and Awards:

 

1998 French Embassy Fellowship, Australian Academy of Science

NSF CAREERS Award (supercedes NSF NYI, National Young Investigator Award) 1995-99.

Junior Faculty Development Award, University of Colorado, Boulder 1994.

University Fellowship, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1983-84.

University Scholar at Annual Honors Convocation, University of Pittsburgh, 1982.

American Institute of Chemical Engineers Scholarship Award, University of Pittsburgh, 1981.

Provost Scholarship, University of Pittsburgh, 1979-80.

 

Recent Invited Seminars:

 

ÒExperimental demonstrations of new theorems of non-equilibrium thermodynamicsÓ, an oral contribution, given at the 6th Liquid Matter Conference, Utretch THE NETHERLANDS, 2 July 2005.

 

ÒExperimental demonstrations of two new theorems in non-equilibrium thermodynamics, an invited contribution to Order, Disorder and Criticality Symposium, organized under the Centre of Science and Engineering of Materials (CSEM), The Australian National University, Canberra AUSTRALIA 16 June 2005.

 

ÒExperimental demonstrations of two new theorems in non-equilibrium thermodynamics, Monash University, Melbourne AUSTRALIA, 2 June 2005

 

ÒExperimental demonstrations of two new theorems in non-equilibrium thermodynamics, University of New South Wales, Sydney AUSTRALIA, 26 May 2005.

 

ÒExperimental demonstrations of a new Second Law-like theoremÓ, a keynote talk at the 16th National Congress of Australian Institute of Physics, Canberra AUSTRALIA, 4 February 2005.

 

ÒThe Fluctuation Theorem as a Generalised Second-Law for Nanomachines:  Optical Tweezers Experiments and BeyondÓ a seminar given at the Department of Chemical Engineering, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh UNITED STATES, 28 June 2004.

 

ÒThe Fluctuation Theorem as a Generalised Second-Law for Nanomachines and Single Biopolymer Manipulations:  Optical Tweezers Experiments and BeyondÓ, An invited talk for CAP 2004 Congress, Winnipeg Manitoba CANADA, 13-16 June 2004.

 

ÒExperimental Demonstration of the Fluctuation Theorem using a Colloidal Particle and an Optical TrapÓ an invited talk at the 2003 Maximum Entropy Production Workshop Down Under, The Australian Academy of Science, Canberra AUSTRALIA, 8-10 October 2003.

 

ÒA Story of a Recent Research AdventureÓ, a seminar presented to the Women in Engineering (WIE), Australian Federal Police College, 9 Brisbane Avenue, Barton Canberra AUSTRALIA, 12 August 2003.

 

E.M. Sevick, ÒPulling Single Polymer Chains and Other PicoNewton Force MeasurementsÓ, an invited lecture at the 25th Australiasian Polymer Symposium, Polymer Division of RACI, Armidale AUSTRALIA, 11 February 2002.

 

Membership of relevant professional bodies or societies.

 

Member of American Physical Society (APS), American Chemical Society (ACS), Materials Research Society (MRS), Royal Australian Chemical Institute (RACI)